Author's Note: I know, usually I do this at the end, but I wanted to do this note at the beginning. This idea popped into my head a while ago, while I was thinking about one of my favorite Doctor Who characters, then realized it would also fit for two other favorites of mine.
Sadly, I do not own Doctor Who, the BBC does.
He is a warrior and a healer.
He has taken lives and saved them, wounded and maimed others with various weapons, healed the effects of weapons, sometimes the same ones.
Known on multiple planets, he has become a legend, the warrior who takes care of others, the healer who fights and kills.
He's also died.
He's killed, brought people back from the brink of death, and been there himself, more than once. In fact, he's nearly been killed so many times that he lost count. It is rather an occupational hazard of traveling in the TARDIS, but for him, it's been more perilous than most.
He knows from bitter experience that death in battle is nowhere as glorious as it's made out to be.
Once, he wasn't brave. Once, he was an ordinary being, or at least as ordinary as any member of his species was. But he found the best-and the worst-in himself, and became so much more.
He has murdered so many people for what he believed was right. He's saved so many lives, made so many people feel better, but for everyone he's healed, another has died by his hand.
He is a warrior, and he is a healer.
One day, perhaps, he will learn to reconcile the paradox. But for now, he goes on killing and healing and fighting and making people better.
So, what do you think? Does it apply to the Doctor? Rory? Strax? All of the above?
Please review, constructive criticism welcome! :)
It's his job, after all.